Word: medicalization
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...college, Bowden trained rescue dogs before landing a spot as a medic at Professional Ambulance, a private company contracted by CFD. It was a step closer to her dream. On the job, Bowden met veteran firefighters. They told her that if she wanted to have a shot at their jobs, she needed to study—and get herself into a fire...
...We’re limited by available resources and the training of the team,” says David L. Krause, an EMT who will serve as the expedition’s medic. “Serious injuries will have to be evaluated carefully...Obviously, that’s a huge challenge in the middle of, say, a fifty-degree snow slope in a blizzard. So equally obviously, good judgment and careful decisions will have to be the order of the day, as preventive medicine...
Armstrong, who grew up in rural Virginia, came to Boston with relatives in 1961. After serving as a medic in the Army and later as an Emergency Medical Services paramedic, he got a job driving the M2 shuttle, ferrying students from Harvard Yard to the Longwood Medical Campus...
...haven't done it yet," says Wardynski. "Ultimately, if a kid comes to the Army and signs up, the recruiter could say, 'Have you ever played America's Army?'And with that you could see how they did in the game. Say they've done really well with the medical stuff--are you sure they don't want to be a medic? Of course, most of the kids want to be Green Berets...
...Associate Dean for Student Affairs at HMS, has been on the cutting edge of the mental health field since the 1960s. A pioneer in the civil rights movement, Poussaint is best known for linking issues of racial inequality with the practice of psychiatry and served as a field medic at two of Martin Luther King Jr.’s demonstration marches through Mississippi...